When formatting a drive using FAT32 there is a limit of 32GB. If you must
have a larger volume, you can try using a windows 98 boot disk to format the
drive to a larger value then install Windows 2000 on that volume. Otherwise
format the drive using NTFS.

According to the above KB...

"The following limitations exist using the FAT32 file system with
Windows 2000:

A volume must contain at least 65,527 clusters to use the FAT32 file
system. You cannot increase the cluster size on a volume using the FAT32
file system so that it ends up with less than 65,527 clusters.

The maximum possible number of clusters on a volume using the FAT32 file
system is 268,435,445. With a maximum of 32 KB per cluster with space for
the file allocation table (FAT), this equates to a maximum disk size of
approximately 8 terabytes (TB).

The ScanDisk tool included with Microsoft Windows 95 and Microsoft
Windows 98 is a 16-bit program. Such programs have a single memory block
maximum allocation size of 16 MB less 64 KB. Therefore, The Windows 95/98
ScanDisk tool cannot process volumes using the FAT32 file system that have
a FAT larger than 16 MB less 64 KB in size. A FAT entry on a volume using
the FAT32 file system uses 4 bytes, so ScanDisk cannot process the FAT on
a volume using the FAT32 file system that defines more than 4,177,920
clusters (including the two reserved clusters). Including the FATs
themselves, this works out, at the maximum of 32 KB per cluster, to a
volume size of 127.53 gigabytes (GB).

You cannot decrease the cluster size on a volume using the FAT32 file
system so that the FAT ends up larger than 16 MB less 64 KB in size.

You cannot format a volume larger than 32 GB in size using the FAT32
file system in Windows 2000. The Windows 2000 FastFAT driver can mount and
support volumes larger than 32 GB that use the FAT32 file system (subject
to the other limits), but you cannot create one using the Format tool.
This behavior is by design. If you need to create a volume larger than 32
GB, use the NTFS file system instead."

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